Leveraging Demurrage Transactions for

Rail Car Tracking

By
Lakshmi Padileti & Jaheer Shaik
DATE: 29TH JULY 2013

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Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
 Demurrage Transaction – Basics
• DTs are used to capture the loaded or empty
equipment movement
Purpose
• Equipment is not necessary to define in OTM
• Release Bad cars

Create / • Automatically creates / updates by agents with the

Demurrage Update information from Tracking Event
Transaction
(DT)
• Holds all applicable events
Events • The record of dwell and free times
• Shows Start & End times separately

• Car Allocation summary and detail reports

Reporting
• Links to shipment for settlement & liability
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Demurrage Process Flow
Tracking Event Tracking Event
Manager XML Interface

Tracking Event

Match &
Propagation Agent

Demurrage Transaction

Demurrage Transaction
Charges

Interim Accrued Charges Monthly

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(Liability) Report Settlement Report
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
Rail Car Booking Process
 Following steps perform before rail car ordering
process:
 Shipments forecast
 Estimating rail cars by day / week and by Location

 Negotiations with Rail Carriers

 Placing required Rail Car orders with carrier via their

web portal, etc

 Store the final negotiated rail cars by day / week by

location in OTM or outside of OTM
Rail Car Booking Process contd…
 Negotiated final list of ordered rail cars
Date Dest. Location Confirmed Cars
22-Jul Chicago 30
22-Jul Milwaukee 25
23-Jul Racine 15
25-Jul Chicago 20

 We don’t have any visibility of these rail cars start

date, arrival, where they are & car marks
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
Empty Rail Car Visibility
 Without a shipment / equipment in OTM

 How to capture the empty rail car movement?

 How to release Bad Cars to rail carriers?

 How to capture the events for empty rail cars?

Empty Rail Car Visibility contd…
 Prior to OTM 6.3
 We may need to create equipment and/or SAW shipment

 Capture events either on Equipment / Shipment

 Release Equipment / Shipment for bad cars

Empty Rail Car Visibility contd…
 What’s New in OTM 6.3?
 Demurrage Transaction and Tracking
Events will replace them

 No
need of creating equipment and/or
SAW shipment

 Capture the events (Web / EDI) on Demurrage Transaction

 Release the bad cars by sending Demurrage Transaction

object
 Empty Rail Car Visibility - Sample

6009 J 6009
Constructive Junction Constructive
Event Code Placement R Delivered 6005 Placement 6007
6006 Junction Arrived at
& Actual
Arrived Received Destination
Description Placement

START Dallas Dallas Oklahoma Oklahoma Chicago Chicago Chicago

Event 07/22/2013 7/24/2013 7/25/2013 7/25/2013

Time 9:35 AM 6:11 AM 7:03 AM 4:40 PM
7/23/2013 7/25/2013
3:22 AM 3:40 PM
7/24/2013
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
Tracking Event XML
Reporting
By Whom?

What?

When?

Who?

Where?
Tracking Event Agent
Demurrage Transaction - Origin
Demurrage Transaction – Jct.
Demurrage Transaction – Dest.
Demurrage Transaction Events
Demurrage Transaction Outbound
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
Planning – Location Capacity
 Restrict expected rail cars by location by day/week
using location capacity
Planning – Carrier Commitment
 Restrict expected rail cars by location by day/week
using Carrier Commitment
Agenda
 Basics of Demurrage Transaction

 Rail Car Booking Process

 Empty Rail Car Visibility

 Integrations with Demurrage Transactions & Tracking

Events

 Planning Restrictions

 Reporting Options
 Reports – Cars Allocation Summary

 Summary of cars allocation by date and location

Dest. Confirmed Bad Loaded / Rail Orders / Available
Date Intransit Rcvd.
Location Cars Cars Shipped Shmts Cars

22-Jul Chicago 30 29 0 0 0 30 -1

22-Jul Milwaukee 25 0 25 0 0 25 0

23-Jul Racine 15 0 15 1 14 20 -6

25-Jul Chicago 20 0 25 0 15 15 10
 Reports – Car Spotting Details
 This report can extend to get further more details
Dest. Eq. Start
Date SCAC Eq. # Start City Car Status
Location Initial State
22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 12345 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN

22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 22346 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN

22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 32347 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN
22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 42348 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN
22-Jul Chicago BNSF BNSF 52349 Dallas TX ARRIVAL AT ORIGIN
… … … … … … … …
25-Jul Chicago CSX CSX 11111 Jacksonville FL ACTUAL PLACEMENT AT DEST
25-Jul Chicago CSX CSX 22222 Jacksonville FL ACTUAL PLACEMENT AT DEST
25-Jul Chicago CSX CSX 33333 Jacksonville FL ACTUAL PLACEMENT AT DEST
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